The Asheville Ballet will share a beloved fairy tale through movement this May. The Asheville Ballet will present the ballet Cinderella, set to Prokofiev’s music, at Diana Wortham Theatre May 16 and 17 at 7:30 and May 17 at 2:30. Tickets are available at the box Office at 257-4530. Here’s more information from the ballet [...][Continue Reading...]

I am mad for “The Madman’s Daughter.” I bought it last year, and added it to my then-high stack of novels on my bedside table, after I had such a pleasant time chatting with author Megan Shepherd for a story about Asheville’s Young Adult fiction scene (this was during my “Hunger Games” film coverage a [...][Continue Reading...]

Spring must have sprung. I’m not wearing a scarf around my face or pants on top of pants while I write this. Another sign of spring? The return of Castell Photography’s exhibit season, which will debut April 4 as part of the Downtown Asheville Art District’s First Friday Artwalk. It’s the first art walk [...][Continue Reading...]

Vadim Bora was not only skilled at sketching people. The late artist was skilled at seeing them — inside and out. “He really captures the essence of a person,” said Constance Richards Bora, Vadim’s widow, and a longtime arts writer and director of the Grand Bohemian Gallery in Biltmore Village. “He exaggerates a feature or [...][Continue Reading...]

If you have a brain — and aren’t craving brains — I think Asheville is a terrible place to try to survive a zombie apocalypse. No, I’m not reporting that a flesh-eating horde has been reported in the area. Instead, I’m just responding to Huffington Post re-posting — as they do — a report from [...][Continue Reading...]

Rhetorical Factory, a recycled clothing line, has announced today that its flagship West Asheville store will open this April. The space, which I visited last week, will be in the 444 Haywood Road building, next to the soon-to-open King Daddy’s Chicken & Waffles. It’s an expansive, impressive project that will feature a showroom for designer [...][Continue Reading...]

The support around the Cane Creek Middle School’s eight grade band continues to impress. The band members, school community, friends and family are rallying around the group’s effort to play at Carnegie Hall this spring. They’ve organized everything from car washes to pancake dinners to performances to help get the students to one of the [...][Continue Reading...]

I like Sheila Hansen’s style. She cares about health, in both the personal and global sense. But she’s not the extreme type — or the judgmental kind. This quote sums up that sentiment perfectly: “I don’t think using a drugstore mascara is going to kill you,” she said. Hansen, who has more than 20 years’ [...][Continue Reading...]

The Asheville Art Museum is offering a great opportunity to see the new exhibit by Ralph Burns April 4. The museum is offering a “pay as you wish” option to see the new show during the First Friday Art Walks. Here’s more information: Asheville Art Museum Kicks of First Friday Art Walks with a Focus [...][Continue Reading...]

A New York-based author is making a stop on his national reading tour, and will perform with one of my favorite Asheville band’s Hello Hugo. The Emerald Lounge is hosting the free event tonight at 7 p.m. D. Foy, who you can meet in the trailer above, was born in California’s Mojave Desert and grew [...][Continue Reading...]